Our NAMA President-Elect, Susie Decker, Farm Progress Companies, spoke to students at their lunch today. She made a very nice gesture and gave out her “tractor numbers” to the group and told them that whoever found them should bring them to her and she would give them her tractor.

In case you don’t know what that means, AgriMarketing Magazine provides scale model tractors each year in each NAMA Connection Point booth. All registrants get a number and if you find a tractor with your number on it, you get it. This year we have McCormick MTX150 Tractors.

After Susie spoke, luncheon emcee, Curt Blades gave out some of the NAMA student scholarships and announced the student marketing competition semi-finalists. They are competing now and include:

Wisconsin-Madison
University of Florida
New Mexico State
Iowa State
Michigan State
Virginia Tech
North Dakota State University
Purdue
Wisconsin-Platteville
Mississippi State
Ohio State
Nebraska

Goog luck to all of them!

NAMA Photo Album

The 2009 Agri-Marketing Conference is underway in Atlanta, GA. I’ll be your NAMA blogger once again this year and hope to bring you as much of the conference as I can so you will almost feel like you’re here.

I have started a Conference Photo Album which will be added to over the coming days so check it often.

For you Twitter happy people out there please use or follow the #NAMA hashtag to keep up with what the Twitterverse is saying about NAMA and the conference.

A big thank you goes out to Successful Farming for sponsoring the NAMA blog this year.